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  • Yann Martel Quote - When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
  • Yann Martel Quote - When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
  • Yann Martel Quote - When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
  • Yann Martel Quote - When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
  • Yann Martel Quote - When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
  • Yann Martel Quote - When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Yann Martel

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    The presence of God is the finest of rewards.

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    I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).

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    I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster.

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    To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.

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    I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

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    It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

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    Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

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    The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

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    We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

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    I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.

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    I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.

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    The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?

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